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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: How to USE “Resonating Oops” in loudspeakers
Post Subject: Everything You Need?Posted by Paul S on: 6/2/2017
Rather involved discussion about Helmholtz-type speakers. Here's another proponent, Hans Kortenbach:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBlikzKoRg
I have only "heard" the Musical Affairs speakers on YouTube, but I have to say, they are able to do some specific things rather well. As ever, the resonating oops question that stays with me is, what do we mean by "resonances". If the aim is to add tonal color to a horn system, that might be different than adding sound effects to a direct driver or hybrid system. In Romy's case the drivers he used to do it have been noted for tonal color, in and of themselves, even in free air. By this I mean that they can reproduce a wide range of instrumental and vocal colors. In any case, would there be a value to having the same colorations added to any and all music? I suppose this is possible if the resonator adds something that is otherwise always missing; but that's the only reason for this I can think of as I type. The Musical Affairs speakers do seem to have some predictable (for the genre) problems when they are asked to play music that strays out of their sweet spot. Not that any other speakers are different in this regard, rather to say, to my ears the MA speakers have a fairly limited repertoire. Do the "piano speakers" share these sorts of limits?
Also on the Bosendorfer site are a number of "options" offered for improving speaker performance. These could be very educational for the patient, attentive audiophile.
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